XtremeGamer Pro + Drive Upgrade Kit = No sound after reboot (please he

First, lemmie say I saw the sticky at the top of this page for digital i/o. After reading the thread, the fix doesn't work for vista and I see that it says you just have to enable digial i/o from the control panel. Since, I have already tried this ... I am asking for help.
Bought an X-Fi XtremeGamer card about 6 months ago and everything has been working fine. However, I recently converted the PC it was in into an HTPC. Since I have a surround system, it seemed my only option to go with a dri've upgrade kit or have to rebuy a new sound card (wanted 7. surround via coaxial/optical).
Long story short, everything installed fine yet everytime I reboot the computer I lose sound. If I go into the diagnostic software included by Creative, all the test come back fine but at the last test where it actually test the speakers I get no sound. Selecting to restore defaults brings the sound back just fine. No other "restore default" command actually restores sound accept the one in diagnostics.
If I reboot immediately after running the diagnostics/getting my sound back, I still come back into Windows without sound. So, it isn't anything I am tweaking that is causing sound loss.
Currently my PC specs are as follows:
Windows Vista
XteremeGamer Pro
Dri've Upgrade Kit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (OC - 3.3GHz)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB Ram
GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
eVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Audio system:
SLS Audio Q-Line Gold 5. Surround
Connecting using coaxial right now, have not tried optical to see if that solves the problem though. Going to do that when I get home tonight.
I completely uninstalled all the creative software and reinstalled using the CD that came with the dri've upgrade kit. I also ran the auto update and it installed the latest drivers.
Dunno if it matters but it sees my card, with the upgrade kit, as a Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatalty Champion Series.
Any suggestions/help?
Thanks

Called Creative support and they were just as helpful as these boards. To all who read this, stay away from Creative till they get their act back together. Leading in computer audio my butt, more like leading in customer dissatisfaction and poor support.

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